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Tuesday, December 6 2011
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Iowa States METaL lab develops multiple ways to experience virtual reality
Iowa State University's METaL virtual reality facility is designed to be a versatile, everyday research tool. It will be used to study and develop 3-D visual display technology, audio effects and force feedback. It will also make virtual reality more accessible on campus.
Cyclone Battalion at ISU named best Army ROTC program in Midwestern brigade
The Cyclone Army ROTC Battalion has been named the top program in the 3rd Brigade. The award is based on overall training performance and success at the annual Leadership Development and Assessment Course, and commissioning excellence. The 3rd Brigade includes Army ROTC programs at more than 40 schools in the Midwest.
ISU scientists part of US-Japan team set to research gene chemistry to enhance biofuel, biochemical technology
An Iowa State University research team is collaborating with
scientists at the Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation and also with
scientists in Japan to develop an international partnership to
help make strides in the technologies needed towards a low-carbon
society by looking at the chemistry of basic processes in
plants and how those functions can be better known and
used.
Cyclones headed to NYC's Pinstripe Bowl
Iowa State will take on Rutgers in the 2011 New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 30 at 2:30 p.m., Yankeee Stadium, The Bronx, N.Y. The Iowa State University Alumni Association has a bowl travel package that includes round-trip charter from Des Moines and three nights' accommodations (Dec. 28-30) at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York.
If a fat tax is coming, heres how to make it efficient, effective: ISU economists
A 'sin tax' applied to sweetened goods on store shelves is not the most efficient, effective method of lowering caloric intake from sweet food and would be more disruptive to consumers than necessary, according to Iowa State University research.
Renovated and expanded State Gym will open Jan. 9
Iowa State University's remodeled State Gym and its 94,000 square-foot addition will open on the first day of spring semester -- Jan. 9 -- at 6 a.m. Students may access the building with a current ISU ID card starting then. From Jan. 9 through 22, there will be a free trial period for the university community.
Study by ISU's Pruetz finds savanna chimps exhibit sharing behavior like humans
A new study by Iowa State anthropology professor Jill Pruetz (at left) reports that chimpanzees from her Fongoli research site in Senegal also frequently share food and hunting tools with other chimps. Co-authored by ISU anthropology graduate student Stacy Lindshield, it is the first study to document non-meat sharing behavior among chimpanzees.Their study is posted online in Primates and will be published in a future issue of the journal.
From Eisenhower to Reagan: Five questions with ISU's Dwight Ink
Gifts for Iowa Staters
Campus departments, retailers and student organizations have some special ideas in store for the holidays.
In the news
Why a smart tax on soda would work
TIME
Iowa State University economists say a tax on sweetener may be more effective imposed on the manufacturer vs. the consumer. Applying a tax that encourages manufacturers to choose more healthful recipes or formulas can have a powerful downstream effect.
Charlie Cook's inaugural Harkin Institute lecture
Jobless in Iowa
Although low by national standards, Iowa's official unemployment rate has spiked to 6 percent -- around 99,000 people -- from 3.7 percent in 2007, before the economic downturn began. But Iowa's long-term unemployment rate -- the share of the 99,000 unemployed who have been out of work for 6 months or more -- is 34 percent, nearly twice what it was before the downturn began. And that gives economists, like Iowa State's Dave Swenson, reason for concern.
Veterans sowing seeds of farming success
USA Today and The Des Moines Register
Marine Corps veteran Tyler Albers wants to graduate from college and grow organic vegetables on his family's northeast Iowa farm. Organizations including the Farmer-Veteran Coalition and Iowa State's Beginning Farmer Center are working to pair veterans with farming careers.